The Resilience Playbook

What does it take to walk away from a thriving legal career, sell almost everything you own, and move to Paris with $500 in your bank account In this episode of The Resilience Playbook, Cole Rodgers sits down with Wani Iris Manly — attorney, TEDx speaker, and bestselling author — to talk about faith, identity, transformation, and what happens when the life that looks successful on the outside no l...

What does it take to step away from a system that manages symptoms and build a practice focused on helping people get to the root of what is going on? In this episode of The Resilience Playbook, Cole Rodgers sits down with Dr. Amy Beard, a physician and functional medicine practitioner whose own health crisis changed the way she thinks about medicine, resilience, and personal responsibility. Dr. B...

What does it take to build a 30-year practice in a system that once called you a quack? And what happens when you choose the harder path, every single day, for three decades? In this episode of The Resilience Playbook, Cole Rodgers sits down with Simon Smith, a doctor of chiropractic from England who has spent 31 years caring for patients, challenging conventional medicine, and proving that altern...

What does it mean to live a life rooted in faith, family, and perseverance? In this deeply personal episode of The Resilience Playbook, Cole and Sonni Rodgers sit down with their mother, Sharon, for an intimate conversation about her life, her legacy, and the journey that has shaped generations. Born in 1956 in Morrilton, Arkansas, Sharon was the seventh of seven children in a close-knit Italian f...

Just days before this conversation, Cody Yeoman received a cancer-free PET scan. In this episode of The Resilience Playbook, Cody and Brandy Yeoman sit down with Cole Rodgers for a powerful conversation about faith, marriage, suffering, and what it looks like to keep choosing perspective when life hits hard. At 41, Cody was in peak physical condition and living full throttle when a two-year trail...

What does it take to leave home at 18, move halfway across the world, and build a life from scratch? In this episode of The Resilience Playbook, Cole Rodgers sits down with Nellie Beall to talk about leaving Malaysia for Arkansas in 2001, arriving just before 9/11, and navigating identity, survival, and belonging in a completely new world. Nellie shares how she chose the University of Arkansas bec...

What does it take to walk away from everything the world says will make you happy—career, wealth, marriage, family—and step into a life most people can't understand? In this episode of The Resilience Playbook, Cole Rodgers sits down with Father Patrick Friend, a Catholic priest, chaplain, and teacher at Catholic High School for boys in Little Rock, Arkansas. This is a conversation about faith, suf...

What does it really cost to chase a dream all the way to the big leagues? And what happens when the game that defined your identity suddenly disappears? In this episode of The Resilience Playbook, Cole Rodgers sits down with former MLB pitcher Dustin Moseley for an honest conversation about pressure, loss, reinvention, and the kind of resilience that only develops when success stops being the whol...

What does it really cost to chase a dream all the way to the big leagues? And what happens when the game that defined your identity suddenly disappears? In this episode of *The Resilience Playbook,* Cole Rodgers sits down with former MLB pitcher *Dustin Moseley* for an honest conversation about pressure, loss, reinvention, and the kind of resilience that only develops when success stops being the...

When two people who refuse to settle for the status quo sit down to talk about healthcare, benefits, and an industry overdue for disruption—you get a conversation like this. Spencer Smith, host of Self-Funded with Spencer and captive expert at Pareto Health, joins Cole Rodgers to explore what it actually takes to build something meaningful—in business, in benefits, and in life. Spencer has become...

When two people who refuse to settle for the status quo sit down to talk about healthcare, benefits, and an industry overdue for disruption—you get a conversation like this. Spencer Smith, host of _Self-Funded with Spencer_ and captive expert at Pareto Health, joins Cole Rodgers to explore what it actually takes to build something meaningful—in business, in benefits, and in life. Spencer has becom...

At 39 years old, Emily Hester found a lump. She wasn't supposed to have her first mammogram until she turned 40—but something felt off. A week after walking into that appointment with her husband Raydodd, Emily was diagnosed with triple-positive breast cancer. What followed wasn't just a medical battle—it was a test of faith, marriage, resilience, and what it actually means to keep moving forward...

At 39 years old, Emily Hester found a lump. She wasn't supposed to have her first mammogram until she turned 40—but something felt off. A week after walking into that appointment with her husband Raydodd, Emily was diagnosed with triple-positive breast cancer. What followed wasn't just a medical battle—it was a test of faith, marriage, resilience, and what it actually means to keep moving forward...

At 39 years old, Emily Hester found a lump. She wasn't supposed to have her first mammogram until she turned 40—but something felt off. A week after walking into that appointment with her husband Raydodd, Emily was diagnosed with triple-positive breast cancer. What followed wasn't just a medical battle—it was a test of faith, marriage, resilience, and what it actually means to keep moving forward...

At 19 years old, Chris Waddell was a promising ski racer at Middlebury College when a freak accident during training left him paralyzed. His ski popped off mid-turn, and in that moment, everything changed. But what happened next wasn't a story of accepting limits—it was a story of refusing to let anyone define what recovery could mean. In this conversation, Chris walks through the decision his par...

At 19 years old, Chris Waddell was a promising ski racer at Middlebury College when a freak accident during training left him paralyzed. His ski popped off mid-turn, and in that moment, everything changed. But what happened next wasn't a story of accepting limits—it was a story of refusing to let anyone define what recovery could mean. In this conversation, Chris walks through the decision his par...

If you haven’t watched Part 1 yet, we recommend starting there. Part 1 covers Mark’s upbringing, path into the SEAL Teams, and the experiences that shaped who he became. Part 2 picks up where that foundation cracks—and where the real work begins. Retired Navy SEAL sniper and bestselling author Mark Greene returns in Part 2 of this conversation to talk about what happens after the identity, structu...

Retired Navy SEAL sniper and bestselling author Mark Greene has lived through combat deployments, career transitions, divorce, and rebuilding his life from the ground up. In Part 1 of this conversation, Mark sits down with Cole Rodgers to talk about identity, shame, fatherhood, and what it really takes to start over when the image everyone sees no longer matches the man you are inside. If you look...

The Resilience Playbook is a long-form conversation series hosted by Cole Rodgers, created for the people who quietly carry a lot—leaders, executives, parents, and high-performers who look strong on paper but feel the weight in private. In this launch trailer, Cole lays out what you can expect from the show: honest, unpolished conversations about resilience, faith, leadership, marriage, fatherhood...